wilburs SNPA clone

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:28 pm

Edited recipe:
Going to try my hand again at a SNPA clone, after getting a harsh bitterness from the flavour hops in my previous try (perle at 30 mins) i've decided to use a hopping schedule suggested by wilbur with a tweak or two, cheers.

5 gallon batch

5 Kilograms Maris Otter
550g crystal 60

8.5g Magnum hops @ 60 minutes pellet 13.1%
10g Pearle hops @ 60 minutes whole 8%
30g Cascade hops @ 10 minutes whole 6.8%
30g Cascade hops @ 0 minutes whole 6.8%

My cascades are quite high at 6.8 % does anyone think i need to use a bit less at 10 min and a bit more at 0.

Water heating as i type.

mash 66-67C

notassuch · Post by **notassuch** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:43 pm

Hey Del,

I tried SNPA in bottles for the first time a few weeks ago.
Keep us posted on yours as I think it's something a bit special.
Just a good job that the bar ran out when it did, as things were getting a bit squiffy!

All the best tonight.

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:49 pm

Looking good, have you tried goose island IPA?

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:21 pm

tried it? haven't even heard of it?
Where abouts did you get it form where some of the big supermarkets chains carrying it? How does it compare with SNPA.

I have a vacumn bag of amarillio in fridge i was tempted to incorporate but then i guess it wouldn't be SNPA anymore.

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:49 pm

thinking of dropping the 10 min cascade hop addition to 20g and upping the 0 min hop addition to 40g. What do people think?

Frothy · Post by **Frothy** » Wed May 23, 2007 8:19 pm

love SNPA

Frothy

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:18 pm

You could go with 56g at flameout it will give you an extra strong cascade aroma, 30g would be fine for the 10 min. addition.

Cheers

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:36 pm

i was concerned because my cascades are 6.8 % where as the recipes online for this have cascades at 5.4 %.
I went ahead with my revised schedule ie 20g at 10 and 40g at flameout (only seen your reply just now).

This is to please the masses so if its a little shy on bitterness flavour and aroma it'll probably be ok (not everyones a hophead like the typical homebrewer) i still have my previous super charged SNPA to enjoy for myself

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Thu May 24, 2007 12:33 am

Really happy with how this session went, 5 gallons at 1054, the wort tastes really nice even before fermentation and the colour isn't a kick in the ass away from SNPA.

Chilled the boil down much quicker by dropping the IC right into the boiler instead of messing about with trying to hang it on the side.

My modifed hop strainer (doubled the amount of slots with a hacksaw) which previously had blocked up real bad with 80g of hops dealt with roughly the same amount of hops no problem.

Also the wort was as clear as i've managed so far, i think chilling the boil down quicker and having a hop strainer that actually works made a big difference.

Everything went so well its a cert that this is the batch that gets infected

notassuch · Post by **notassuch** » Thu May 24, 2007 12:48 am

Top stuff, Delboy.

Glad everything went well for you.

oblivious · Post by **oblivious** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:43 am

Did you use US-05 or another yeast

BarryNL · Post by **BarryNL** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:50 am

I put this on another thread but, interesting to put here for comparison. This is the Clone Brews version:

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Thu May 24, 2007 9:53 am

oblivious wrote:Did you use US-05 or another yeast

Went with nottingham, this was an impulse brew so i didn't have any us-05, i reckon i can't go to far wrong with nottingham its a high attenuating very clean yeast so not that far removed from US-05, or it at least thats what im telling myself

.

delboy · Post by **delboy** » Thu May 24, 2007 10:06 am

BarryNL wrote:I put this on another thread but, interesting to put here for comparison. This is the Clone Brews version:

Does anyone do the clonebrew recipes, are they any good, i have the book as well but i've never got around to making one. Normally i just flick through the book to pick out styles i might like and then go hunting for a recipe on-line.

I have noticed that they always seem to skimp on the amount of speciality grains compared to the recipes i see most people on here formulating.
Take this one for instance i used 550g crystal 60 but they recommend only about 100g (ok i know i may have overdone on the 60L it but surely not by fivefold).

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:03 pm

I use 340g of xtal 60 for a 24.6 Liter batch, 550g will just make it a bit sweeter. The Nottingham should work just fine, you basically want a yeast that will really chomp away and leave a nice clean crisp dry beer.

I wonder if we are talking about the same xtal 60? In the States we use the SRM Lovibond scale, on your side of the pond you use the EBC scale.

What we call xtal 60 Lovibond would be 120 EBC, or 60 EBC would be 30 Lovibond.

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